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No generally not an issue. Opportunity attacks don't seem that common in 5e. Just pointing out that for those worried about using a shield to make somatic gestures the alternative isn't so bad. We don't allow it in our game as drawing a symbol on a shield doesn't turn it into a holy symbol as...

I dont agree they need to. I have played a mace wielding cleric to 10th level in 5e and its no problem at all putting your weapon away to cast a spell. You dont even need the symbol on a shield. Round the neck will do

They would all probably work pretty well. Just a couple of things I have seen playing along a two weapon rogue is what a pain it can be to cast a lot of spells with material components when you have two weapons. You spend half your time with one weapon sheathed or on the floor. Also, I wouldn't...

I am playing two human characters, one variant one standard. At higher levels there doesn't seem much difference. One has slightly better stats and the other an extra skill One of these humans is a champion and I also have an elf battlemaster. They play differently but both seem effective

Ah I thought you had factored that in by saying two attackers with 2 attacks. Your damage calculations seem to suggest two attacks

Well even if you hit on a 6+, bless can be somewhat useful but your right that over the course of a combat the overall effect would be likely very small. As Mellored points out one miss converted to a hit roughly 1 in 10 attacks

I think of those examples the moderate condition is a good one as it happens between levels 5 and 10 when other important concentration spells appear and compete. With that party doing an extra 6.75 damage a round total it doesn't seem to out of place for a level one spell, compared to spiritual...

Its more that when you don't pick up the extra dice unless you need it (just how we play it), its more obvious in the game how often you don't actually need it. If you roll it for each attack and save its not as apparent how often it does or doesn't make a difference I guess. Players forgetting...

Good idea. I think it should stack with existing proficiency too. It would make the champion very good at athletics and/or acrobatics but still not as good as expertise. This is the only change to the class I might make

I play a paladin from 1st level who was dragged into Ravenloft and spent most of his career struggling (and failing) to fight the evil in various lands. And then, at 11th level, just as he was about to do some good in a domain and fight the lord of the land to help free its people the Dark...

I have been playing a life cleric up to level 10 and when I cast bless the players keep the rolling simple by not using the extra 1d4 unless they just miss an attack or saving throw. What I have noticed from doing it this way is that the extra d4 is hardly ever used and in many fights its...

An abjurer wizard gets it at 14th level

When we played this all the prisoners seemed to be in one area of the camp. We had spent a day scouting things out and infiltrating the camp (well, the druid did at least). So we rescued all the prisoners we found. I guess if they do that they can ask which one Leosin is. Up to you if they won't...

We run multiple campaigns in parallel as we switch between three DMs We started of with Hoard of the Dragon Queen and played to completion although we didn't fancy continuing with the second module now we had kicked the tires of 5e so.... We started an FR based homebrew at 1st level set in Amn...

The 5e rules tell us that when an obstacle is between attacker and defender then a cover bonus is applied. There is no concept of behind close or far from the obstacle. There is no difference between ranged and melee attacks. Earlier additions gave us some realistic exceptions to this such as...

Fair enough, however its very open to interpretation. The cover AC bonus is not about being able to see something but rather that a physical obstacle is in the way. When a creature (ally or enemy) is between you and your target we always rule they have half cover and get +2 AC regardless of...

If you do allow rogue to pop up and attack from cover then I would suggest applying either a half or three quarters cover bonus to the targets AC. Cover can work in both directions. Trying to fire a missile weapon while keeping most of your body behind the cover is difficult and I use the cover...

So far each of the three released modules after the starter set have contained at least one very powerful magic weapon with some serious undesirable side effects. I am interested to know if DM’s of these adventures have played up these flaws or generally ignored them. There are some item...

What I do as a DM is make powerful items like this intelligent and then also make them a total pita to keep. Over the years, some of our best campaign arcs have been around trying to find powerful items and artifacts to get certain quests done and then spending almost as long trying to get rid...

I would say a couple of factors are causing such a high damage output. Firstly the 20 Dex and the feat - this character only gets one ASI so we can assume that the player rolled an 18 (about a 1 in 10 chance of a rolled character getting one 18 at least). I like rolling stats so wouldn't say on...